Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous spring had convinced college deans that it might be necessary to restrict parietal privileges for students at both Harvard and at Radcliffe. But as concern over proposed reduction in parietal privileges claimed the attention of both students and officials, the ensuing conflict escalated into a sex scandal that reached the front pages of salubrious national tabloids like Boston's own Record American...
Though Deans Watson and Monro stated vehemently that the tabloid scandal would in no way affect the considered changes in parietal rules, the conflict between students and officials continued to be an item of interest for the rest of the year...
...time the class of 1964 graduated, parietal rules were still intact. But the year of scandal and controversy was not without some lasting effects. Parietal rules would continue, but not for long, and by 1970 students at Harvard and Radcliffe would have fought for and achieved complete rights to determine morality within their own rooms...
...buzz of succession talk was interrupted only for periodic "when will he go" bulletins on Wright. From the moment the klieg lights came on in the ethics committee hearing room on Tuesday morning, Democrats realized they had been living in a state of denial about the scandal. By nightfall negotiators for Wright and the committee were sounding each other out about a deal: Wright's resignation in exchange for the committee's agreement to drop some of the charges against him. By week's end it was clear that Wright was a goner, with no guarantee of clemency...
Tokyo lacks the leadership to launch the kind of overnight reforms that would convince U.S. politicians that they were being heard. A Japanese Prime Minister does not carry the clout of an American President or a British Prime Minister; the ability to decree change is limited. The Recruit bribery scandal has virtually paralyzed the lame-duck administration of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look...